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How many Indians have won the Nobel prize?

who were they and which part of the country they belong to and what did they do?


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Rabindranath Tagore, Sir C.V. Raman, Dr. Hargobind Khorana, Dr. Subramaniam Chandrasekar, Mother Teresa, Dr. Amartya Sen are the Indians who won the Nobel Prize.....

Other Nobel Prize Laureates related to India:
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
British writer, Rudyard Kipling wrote novels, poems and short stories -- mostly set in India and Burma (now known as Myanmar). He was the 1907 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration, which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."

V.S. Naipaul (1932- )
British writer of Indian origin, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2001 "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."